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Mad Max [Feral Mini Site] is officially being released on the 20th of October for Linux & SteamOS, it’s finally coming!

On October 20th, enter the outlandish post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max on Mac and Linux. pic.twitter.com/8Vx0qU9YpK

— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) October 5, 2016


After initially being confirmed for Linux way back in March 2015, we finally have confirmation that not only is the Linux port real, but it’s coming damn soon too.

From the press release:

Quote“We’re delighted to be bringing Mad Max to Mac and Linux PC,” said David Stephen, Managing Director at Feral Interactive, “With its exhilarating combat, outlandish characters and beautiful end-of-the-world visuals, Mad Max perfectly captures the atmosphere and thrill of The Wasteland.”


System requirements:
Intel i5 or AMD FX8350 3.4 GHz CPU
8GB RAM
SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better.

The game also requires an NVIDIA 660ti series graphics card or better, running driver version 367.35 or later. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at release.

If you want more information on AMD support in future, you can see this comment from Edwin who works at Feral, copied below:

Edwin, Feral InteractiveDue to various issues with Mesa we will not be supporting AMD on release. We only can officially support drivers if they meet the quality needed and sadly Mesa isn't quite there yet as it has a few issues and edge cases. It was a super close call but in the end we won't say a game is officially supported unless it runs great using release versions of the drivers and kernel.

However we developed the game using AMD cards as well as Nvidia so if you install the latest Mesa beta drivers and other updates as needed it runs it's just not at a level where we can provide official support as some edge cases will exist. Hopefully once all the Mesa developments get into a stable release version and all the related kernel improvements also are in a stable release then support for Mad Max and similar complex titles will be easier/possible.

Summary: AMD is unsupported meaning we don't recommend you purchase it on AMD GPUs, however we have don a lot of work towards support which should happen once all the improvements to Mesa/Kernel are in stable branches.



Releasing another game so soon after Dawn of War II [port report here], Feral sure are busy! I will hopefully have my usual report on the game up at release. Not long to go folks! Are you excited? Let me know in the comments!

After the news about Civ VI possibly not coming to Linux, this was a very well timed announcement.

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Salvatos Oct 5, 2016
Doesn't look like my PC will be able to run it if those are the minimum reqs, but happy nonetheless to see such a franchise being ported to Linux :)
edddeduck_feral Oct 5, 2016
Quoting: devlandIt will most likely work on AMD.

Here's their response on reddit.

Yep, I posted on this article too a few posts before you linked to my reply on Reddit :)
ungutknut Oct 5, 2016
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: ungutknutNice! Bought it a few days ago when it was -75% on steam - speculating that it'll be released on linux.

Except, now it counts as a Windows sale, and Feral get none of the money for it.
I don't care. Wouldn't have bought it anyway if it wasn't that cheap.
Liam Dawe Oct 5, 2016
Quoting: ungutknut
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: ungutknutNice! Bought it a few days ago when it was -75% on steam - speculating that it'll be released on linux.

Except, now it counts as a Windows sale, and Feral get none of the money for it.
I don't care. Wouldn't have bought it anyway if it wasn't that cheap.
And it's people like you that help to reduce our already small sale count for developers. Nice one, not.
edddeduck_feral Oct 5, 2016
Quoting: ungutknut
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: ungutknutNice! Bought it a few days ago when it was -75% on steam - speculating that it'll be released on linux.

Except, now it counts as a Windows sale, and Feral get none of the money for it.
I don't care. Wouldn't have bought it anyway if it wasn't that cheap.

Enjoy the game, we've had a blast making it for Linux!

Hopefully next time you'll be able to buy a Tux version and help fund more games coming to Linux :)


Last edited by edddeduck_feral on 5 October 2016 at 4:17 pm UTC
Samsai Oct 5, 2016
Never ever buy games early. You are just potentially cutting into the profits of porting teams not to mention likely casting your consumer protection right out the window by doing that nonsense. Sure, you might get a "good deal" but at the same time you are not helping more games come to our platform and you are taking an unnecessary risk because we have NO IDEA how the game will turn out to be in the end. Even if you have absolute trust in the porting team's or developers' capability you are still taking a risk and sometimes even the good guys fail, so please just stop it.

Also, just to get them clicks, here's an article I wrote specifically about this nonsense.
MaCroX95 Oct 5, 2016
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: ungutknut
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: ungutknutNice! Bought it a few days ago when it was -75% on steam - speculating that it'll be released on linux.

Except, now it counts as a Windows sale, and Feral get none of the money for it.
I don't care. Wouldn't have bought it anyway if it wasn't that cheap.
And it's people like you that help to reduce our already small sale count for developers. Nice one, not.

Not everyone is always in a good financial situation and if he found a deal why not buy it if he didn't intend to otherwise... Yes, it's really nice to support porting teams and companies but don't judge him if he rushed to buy it before Feral finished porting it :) There are a lot of us who will still support great guys from Feral!
[email protected] Oct 5, 2016
That's why I'm gonna wait for Feral.

If he's down on cash, he can get it after Feral releases it on a sale. It's not like Mad Max is never ever gonna go on sale.

I agree with what Samsai said. Never feed the single platform train.
Hal_Kado Oct 5, 2016
Awesome, finally a game I can get as a day one linux release and place my first proper vote with my wallet :D It seems as I slowly transitions away from windows I had most big games I wanted to play before they were ported.
dubigrasu Oct 5, 2016
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: ungutknut
Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: ungutknutNice! Bought it a few days ago when it was -75% on steam - speculating that it'll be released on linux.

Except, now it counts as a Windows sale, and Feral get none of the money for it.
I don't care. Wouldn't have bought it anyway if it wasn't that cheap.
And it's people like you that help to reduce our already small sale count for developers. Nice one, not.
There are countries were the game price is ten times higher (relative to the income). How much is Mad Max, 30 Euro? Would you still buy it at 300 Euros to support Feral/Linux?
Edit: to be more clear, when you're dealing with such high prices, sometimes you can't resist a good deal.


Last edited by dubigrasu on 5 October 2016 at 6:31 pm UTC
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